Greenhouse over winter

[rutters]

Hi all..I've got a south facing greenhouse which is normally empty over winter but this year I've tried an experiment of growing Broad Beans. So far they are about a metre tall, so you never know what might happen!!

Is anyone else growing anything in theirs?

cheers

[rutters]

[Rosyred]

I'm trying salad stuff but it isn't happening yet.

[manicscousers]

our poly has chinese leaves, red mustard, mizuna, mouli radish, winter salads, parsley still going, I'm like you, have to have something growing all year, just to help through winter  ;D

[Stevens706]

I'm trying lettuce and early peas in a pot

[calendula]

mines stuffed as usual - mizuna, mibuna, lettuces, mustards, peas, grape cuttings, fig, apricots, spinach, seakale, anything that'll oblige really  ;D

[Trevor_D]

The one at home's heated & insulated, plus a sand-bench with a warming cable in it, so we can over-winter fuschias & pelargoniums, plus loads of cuttings.

But I've got lettuce coming on to grow in the GH at the allotment. (The one at home is too warm & damp, so they get the fly and mildew.) Hope it works - this will be the first year I've tried it.

But I always use it to bring stuff on, late winter/early spring - peas & broad beans, plus some french beans in large pots.

[rutters]

Thanks for the replys..could anyone tell me what they expect to be able to use in winter and which is just to be given an early start?

I suspect my Broad Beans won't produce beans till spring/summer..by then they may be very tall :o

[growmore]

You may find you will have to hand pollinate your broady flowers with a fine haired brush .A blusher brush I think they call em works well ..Or a rabbiits tail ..

[davee52uk]

I've nearly completed my project of growing lettuce all the year round. For this I have had a lettuce available to eat every week of the year. This would be very difficult without a greenhouse. I've also got four cold frames.

I've also got broad beans in my 'house but will probably plant them out to overwinter with a bit of protection.

I would be very interested in earliest sowing times in an unheated greenhouse.

[saddad]

These were all grown outside over winter last year... the carrots had a bit of fleece but that was all..






;D